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The garden at San Pedro Elementary was bustling with activity! Two volunteer interns, Jennifer and Darlynn, from New Village Charter School, came to help with the classes this week! It was great to have extra hands for our busy day, so we divided the classes into two teams: BUG TEAM The Bug Team’s mission was…

Garden Steward Angela, and the students at Main Street Elementary recently planted some beautiful tomato and strawberry seedlings, but many of the older plants in the garden long ago passed their prime. We spent the afternoon pulling bolted lettuces and out of control weeds! In the process, we discovered tiny onions struggling for some sunlight…

Students all over Los Angeles are in the midst of heavy California Standard Testing. So it was no surprise that weeding the garden, on a beautiful day at West Vernon, was greeted with such enthusiasm and diligence! While the students were simply enjoying the change of pace from their rigorous testing, their minds and bodies…

Bad puns aside, we had a great time planting strawberries and thyme at our garden at Main Street Elementary School. We divided up the work so that some students weeded, some dug holes, some put the plants in the soil, and finally some covered the plants back up with dirt. Everyone was quite eager to…

Last week at West Vernon Elementary, the boys and girls of Dr. Hugo’s class participated in a competition to see who could weed more in a given time period. This week the two teams demanded a rematch, and both teams came to the garden determined to be the winners – and off they went! Mulch…

FrontiersLA.com has included this Sunday’s EnrichLA event in their “Harvey Milk Day Celebrations” article!  If you would like to be part of this great event, join us at RFK Community Schools located at 701 S. Catalina St., Los Angeles, CA 90005 “On Sunday May 20, L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Stuart Milk, founder of the Harvey Milk…

Design for RFK edible garden Tomas O Grady and Enrich LA’s elite team of professionals will lead a team of almost 250 volunteers to build two edible gardens at Robert Kennedy Community Schools, on Sunday May 20th in honor of Harvey Milk day! Partners include the office of Mayor Antonio Villaraigrosa and Gay for Good. “This was the…

Last week’s classes at San Pedro were filled with making seed bombs! We blended recycled newspaper into a pulp and then mixed in tomato seeds. We then pressed the pulp into muffin tins and left them on our garden counter to dry in the sun. It was a very popular activity! We celebrated with a…

This week at Markham students got to take a break from CST testing and relax in the garden.  Classes made bouquets for their mothers or another close relative.  Many of the bouquets items we used were weeds, but nonetheless very beautiful.  It was a fun way to get the students excited about weeding. Students also…

EnrichLA is excited to announce its involvement in the Silverlake Jubilee this coming Memorial Day weekend! Come visit our booth at the Jubilee and find some inexpensive edible seedings, herb bouquets from our school gardens, and have the kids join in making some seed bombs! We will also be featuring some fresh produce grown from…

Tomas O Grady and Enrich LA’s elite team of professionals will lead a team of almost 250 volunteers to build two edible gardens at Robert Kennedy Community Schools, on Sunday May 20th in honor of Harvey Milk day! Partners include the office of Mayor Antonio Villaraigrosa and Gay for Good. “This was the site of…

Green Mother’s Day Gift Ideas What are some ways to be Green on Mother’s Day? Start by giving handmade, local, organic, Fair Trade, and eco-friendly gifts. Choose organic local flowers. Most flowers are mainly grown in other countries that use harmful chemicals and pesticides. Who wants to bring that into their home? Green Mother’s Day…

Community volunteers arrived to plant a hundred gallon-plants around the border of Trinity Elementary School this morning. A dozen of the plants were generously donated to the garden’s Scented Forest. It will be really exciting when they grow in and the “forest” becomes the dense wild flora area that we envision. A few student volunteers [...]

Community volunteers arrived to plant a hundred gallon-plants around the border of Trinity Elementary School this morning. A dozen of the plants were generously donated to the garden’s Scented Forest. It will be really exciting when they grow in and the “forest” becomes the dense wild flora area that we envision. A few student volunteers [...]

BIO Tomás O’Grady Tomas O’Grady is the executive director of Enrich LA, the environmental non-profit that he co-founded in 2010 to bring edible school gardens to public schools in the City of Los Angeles. Enrich LA has brought gardens to 23 schools and has plans in place for 25 more. Tomas, a farmer’s son from…

The garden is certainly becoming a beloved institution at Trinity Elementary. Our recess hours are overrun with volunteers! The classes were a bit calmer with split lessons on composting and the worm bin. Then the students used what they learned to turn the compost bin and create new bedding for the worms with damp shredded [...]

The garden is certainly becoming a beloved institution at Trinity Elementary. Our recess hours are overrun with volunteers! The classes were a bit calmer with split lessons on composting and the worm bin. Then the students used what they learned to turn the compost bin and create new bedding for the worms with damp shredded [...]

This week at John Adams students created seed bombs.  Traditionally, seed bombs are made with clay. However students made them with wet newspaper scraps and flowers seeds ranging from sunflowers to nasturtiums.  They each took one seed bomb home and donated another for the Kaiser Permanente Health Fair next week. Some classes also made bouquets…

In le garden, they are variuos colors of green, yellow, lavender, purple, and many more. 

There different types of colors like yellow,redorange,orange red,purple,white, and ,brown.The colors make a perfect garden.

It’s been a fruitful month at ALC…              

One of my favorite things about being a garden steward is seeing the positive changes a garden can bring about in people. A while back I was in the garden at Luther Burbank and a student came in and asked if he could water the plants. As he walked around and watered the leafy greens…

Quite a few living creatures have decided to move into the Trinity Garden and make it their home. Our recent favorites are the hummingbirds! We haven’t been able to snap a good photo yet but Sissy, a 4th grader, drew this for us in the meantime. Anyone have a good idea about what to do [...]

Quite a few living creatures have decided to move into the Trinity Garden and make it their home. Our recent favorites are the hummingbirds! We haven’t been able to snap a good photo yet but Sissy, a 4th grader, drew this for us in the meantime. Anyone have a good idea about what to do [...]

Yesterday I was fortunate to be invited to celebrate the Crown Jewel Club’s 2012 Emerald graduation at Trinity Elementary. The Crown Jewel Club is a nonprofit organization founded at Trinity that empowers at-risk girls with basic etiquette and social skills essential to building self-esteem and self-confidence for academic achievement and overall success in life. Yesterday [...]

Yesterday I was fortunate to be invited to celebrate the Crown Jewel Club’s 2012 Emerald graduation at Trinity Elementary. The Crown Jewel Club is a nonprofit organization founded at Trinity that empowers at-risk girls with basic etiquette and social skills essential to building self-esteem and self-confidence for academic achievement and overall success in life. Yesterday [...]

Garden Club is in session at Main St. Elementary!   As we were clearing out some lettuce plants that had gone to seed, we noticed some plants with bulbous roots peeking out. Upon closer inspection, we discovered that these beauties were turnips! We harvested a few and cut a few slices for everyone to try….